FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Contact: Adrienne Royer
703-647-3357
aroyer@campusreform.org

ARLINGTON, Va. - CampusReform.org, a new website for conservative and libertarian activists, inspired college students across the country to protest federally bailed out banks that continue to fund the embattled Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

Using a CampusReform.org activism idea, students protested outside of offices of banks that accepted bailout funds and asked bank managers to sign a pledge to stop funding ACORN.  University of Florida students in Gainsville protested at Bank of America.  Vanderbilt University students protested at a Wachovia branch in Nashville, Tenn.  Middle Tennessee State University students protested at a Citigroup bank in Murfreesboro.  Details and photographs of protests are available on CampusReform.org.

Future protests are planned by students at Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisc.), Central Michigan University (Mount Pleasant, Mich.), and Washington State University (Pullman, Wash.).

Stephen Parvin, a Middle Tennessee State University sophomore and protest organizer, credited CampusReform.org.  "I look forward to using this brand new networking device to connect with like-minded students all over the country," he said.  "CampusReform.org is going to be invaluable to constitutional conservatives, classical liberals, and libertarians who are fighting against the current resurgence of flawed collectivist ideology in America."

ACORN, shown in undercover videos to give advice on tax fraud and underage prostitution, was stripped of federal funding by a Congressional vote in September.

CampusReform.org, a project of the Leadership Institute, is a social networking website for conservative and libertarian student activists.  The website includes a unique subsite for each of the 2,376 four-year colleges and universities in the country and offers customizable pages for both student groups and individual users.

 For more information about CampusReform.org, visit www.campusreform.org.  For more information on the Leadership Institute, visit www.leadershipinstitute.org.